Dietary Reference Intakes

Applications in Dietary Assessment

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2001
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309171618
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Medicine

Since 1994 the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board has been involved in developing an expanded approach to developing dietary reference standards. This approach, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), provides a set of four nutrient-based reference values designed to replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in the United States and the Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) in Canada. These reference values include Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), Adequate Intake (AI), and Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL). To date, several volumes in this series have been published.This new book, Applications in Dietary Assessment, provides guidance to nutrition and health research professionals on the application of the new DRIs. It represents both a "e;how to"e; manual and a "e;why"e; manual. Specific examples of both appropriate and inappropriate uses of the DRIs in assessing nutrient adequacy of groups and of individuals are provided, along with detailed statistical approaches for the methods described. In addition, a clear distinction is made between assessing individuals and assessing groups as the approaches used are quite different. Applications in Dietary Assessment will be an essential companion to any-or all-of the DRI volumes.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
• SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERPRETATION AND USES OF DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES
• SUBCOMMITTEE ON UPPER REFERENCE LEVELS OF NUTRIENTS
• STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES
• FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD
• Preface
• Contents
• Summary
• I Historical Perspective and Background
• II Application of DRIs for Individual Diet Assessment
• III Application of DRIs for Group Diet Assessment
• IV Fine-Tuning Dietary Assessment Using the DRIs
• A Origin and Framework of the Development of Dietary Reference Intakes
• ORIGIN
• THE CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE
• PARAMETERS FOR DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES
• B Nutrient Assessment of Individuals: Statistical Foundations
• USING THE EAR TO ASSESS ADEQUACY OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S OBSERVED INTAKE
• INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT FOR NUTRIENTS WITH AN AI
• ASSESSING EXCESSIVE INTAKE AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
• C Assessing Prevalence of Inadequate Intakes for Groups: Statistical Foundations
• THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION OF INTAKE AND REQUIREMENT
• THE PROBABILITY APPROACH
• THE EAR CUT-POINT METHOD
• D Assessing the Performance of the EAR Cut-Point Method for Estimating Prevalence
• INTRODUCTION
• INTAKES AND REQUIREMENTS ARE CORRELATED
• VARIANCE OF REQUIREMENTS IS LARGE RELATIVE TO VARIANCE OF INTAKES
• THE DISTRIBUTION OF REQUIREMENTS IS NOT SYMMETRICAL AROUND THE EAR
• E Units of Observation: Assessing Nutrient Adequacy Using Household and Population Data
• HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL ASSESSMENTS
• POPULATION-LEVEL ASSESSMENTS
• F Rationale for Setting Adequate Intakes
• G Glossary and Abbreviations
• H Biographical Sketches of Subcommittee Members
• Index